Title: Diamonds Are Forever.
Rating: PG.
Fandom: X-Men.
Synopsis: What does Scott Summers want for Christmas?

( What does Scott Summers want for Christmas? )

Title: Christmas On the Beach.
Rating: G.
Fandom: Narbonic.
Synopsis: What is Christmas like on Helen's private island? (Spoilers for the end of the comic.)

( What is Christmas like on Helen's private island? )

Okay, so here's the thing:

Shaenon Garrity, who wrote Narbonic, is having a big-ass party at Borderlands Books to celebrate finally putting out the big two-volume collection of the comic's entire six-year run. It's an epic comic, and it's an epic book, and we're going to have an epic time. I used "epic" three times there, and that's sort of like ( Read more... )

Title: Velveteen vs. The Alternate Timeline, Part II.
Summary: Into every superhero's life the occasional alternate timeline must fall. Whether she wants it to or not. Of course, then the question becomes...what if you like this new timeline better?

( Waking was a long, slow process made more difficult by the fact that all Velveteen's muscles felt like they'd been scooped out and replaced with strips of wet cotton... )

Title: Velveteen vs. The Alternate Timeline, Part I.
Summary: Into every superhero's life the occasional alternate timeline must fall. Whether she wants it to or not. Of course, then the question becomes...what if you like this new timeline better?

( Velveteen stumbled into her bedroom somewhere between midnight and two o'clock in the morning, muscles aching from a long night of chasing would-be evil-doers over rooftops and through the streets of Portland... )

Title: Barry Ween: The Next Generation.
Rating: R.
Fandom: Barry Ween, Boy Genius.
Synopsis: How are Barry and the others spending the holiday? As with all my Barry-fic, this takes place after "Flowers for Barry Ween." I have been locked into my own alt-history.

( How are Barry and the others spending the holiday? )

Title: Rejects From the Island of Misfit Toys.
Rating: G.
Fandom: Skin Horse.
Synopsis: Why is Santa Claus looking for Sweetheart?

( Why is Santa Claus looking for Sweetheart? )

10. Today is the first day of Wondercon, San Francisco's own entry in the wonderful world of the comic book convention! I'm actually planning to attend all three days this year, much as it pains me to admit that I'm spending an entire weekend commuting back into the city where I store my day job; the distribution of the X-Men and media panels ( Read more... )

Will whomever is currently borrowing volume one of Nocturnals -- the large hardcover volume that Dan signed for me -- please let me know? I don't necessarily need it back right this second, but I didn't realize I'd loaned it out until I cleaned up my comic shelves enough to see that it wasn't in any of the places I'd assumed it was ( Read more... )

Title: A Christmas Fable.
Rating: R.
Fandom: Fables.
Synopsis: What is winter like for Snow and Bigby?

( What is winter like for Snow and Bigby? )